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AWWA announces changes to commonly used standards
IMPORTANT OVERHAUL OF WIDELY USED STANDARD The revision (ANSI/AWWA C651-14) is the result of multiple years of review, research, and discussion by the committee. The update also takes into....
Show us the money on water quality
Castanet, January 27, 2015 Water advisories are so frequent in the Okanagan since Interior Health raised its drinking water standards a few years ago, they have become....
Working Together to Prevent Aquatic Invasive Species
Columbia Basin Trust, January 8, 2015 Four invasive species committees and Columbia Basin Trust have come together with the goal to develop one cohesive strategy and implementation....
The facts: Zebra and Quagga Mussels
Invasive Species Council of BC Species: Dreissena polymorpha & Dreissena bugensis Zebra (Dreissena polymorpha) and quagga mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) are fingernail-sized, freshwater mollusks that can easily attach....
New regulations to protect Canadian lakes and waterways
December 7, 2014 - Oliver Daily News Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea has announced new proposed Invasive Species Regulations that create new regulatory tools that....
Manitoba Introduces Proposed New Legislation to Stop Spread of Zebra Mussels
December 4, 2014: Water Canada The Manitoban government has introduced a proposed piece of new legislation in an effort to control the spread of aquatic invasive species....
Mount Polley tailings spill effects could last for decades
Mark Hume, Vancouver - Globe and Mail Next spring, the sockeye eggs that are now being laid in spawning beds throughout the Fraser River system will hatch....
U.S. explorer reaches world’s largest beaver dam Adventurer bushwacks through dense northeast Alberta boreal forest
BY MARTY KLINKENBERG, EDMONTON JOURNAL EDMONTON - An American researcher recently became the first explorer to set foot on the world’s largest known beaver dam — an....